A few miles behind Jarmolińcami, on the busy road in the direction of Khmelnytskyi (Płoskirów) We meet on an array of information that encourages us to exit from the main route and watch in the nearby village of Mammary precious historical monument. After turning to the right and ujechaniu 4 kilometres we reach the end of the village where the object is located – the goal of our small tourist escapades: defence of Church, Pokrovskaya line 15 the age of. From the first eye contact, It is both their beauty and ruggedness of design. The characteristic, that this second feature sutkowskiej the temple does not exclude the first. Often it so happens, that large, solid and massive is not also the aesthetic, that becomes a Variant, hard, lobed and rozlazłe in shapes. Sutkowski Temple certainly does not fell prey to this schema.

Church in Sutkowcach : a sacral and defensive

The Church is also the object of sacral and an excellent example of 15 – century defence works, What did not surprise, Since the other day-especially on the troubled edges-very often so I just at times. Religious buildings had defensive fortalicji, to which she could escape the surrounding population in the event of a sudden invasion of the enemy or the conflagration of war. If we realise, the Sutkowce were placed on the so-called. kuczmańskim the Tartar, nature defensywno – This object becomes the more the military savvy. A digression is worth mentioning, that circumstance, referred to above, was reflected in the linguistic abilities: the word "Church"-that is, the word got to Polish the speech as bohemizm, who in turn from Latin "it – Castle.

Says to, that first impression is the most important. In this case, it was quite clear: unobtrusive clear resemblance to the Orthodox Church in the sutkowskiej the temple defense Job Rybotycka near Przemyśl, After approximately the same period. The thing is not, however, the dominant design element in the schema, but in military architecture present in the solid of the two objects, distant from each other about ok. 400 miles.

The Church of Sutkowską was ok. year 1467, on the Greek cross plan, the apses are brick arms completed, in its upper part the defensive passing in towers equipped with numerous ambrazury and firepoints. In 1903 y. during the reconstruction of one of the apsyd was topped with a Bell Tower reminiscent of the Russian style cerkiewnego, at the bottom of the stone in the top layer of hardwood, which as such has to 2008 y., This is the last time general maintenance repair, during which the Orthodox Church has also its original, historical look. In addition to the removal of the Bell Tower was made then, including atypical-total reconstruction of the roof, covering it with shingles – in reference to the original construction.

The Church is a two-storey. On the ground floor is a part of the temple (design art items is preserved, Church services are held in the), the first floor and was purely defensive, as evidenced by – among other things – preserved to the present day shooting ranges, rażono of which the enemy. The central axis of the Orthodox of the solid is high stołp focusing around four apses opened symmetrically-. On the outer face of the wall bastions preserved is in very good condition wide cornice with its machikułami-out zaślepionymi. The Church was built of brick and limestone, associated cement. Inside the temple are preserved old bells, one of them is the inscription in starosłowiańskim. At the entrance to the Church, on the left side of the, is located in an excellent position to stone tombstone plate John Sutkowskiego- 15 -the eternal owner of the village.

The ruins of the castle in Sutkowcach

In the old days was Sutkowcach one notable object, namely the Castle. It was built in the first half of the 15 century by the settled in Sutkowcach source taking its name from the village, which the ancestor was a man named Chodko-Knight and 1407 y. by Jogaila and giving Earth in the vicinity of the Jarmoliniec. It was one of his descendants settled in Sutkowcach and gave a top of the line Sutkowskich. In 1567 y. the castle was partially destroyed as a result of the invasion of the czambułu Tatar, just then, however, restored it to the status of previous.

In 1623 He reconstructed as basically rebuilt and upgraded Alexander Balaban, starost of Vinnytsia Oblast, participant in the battle of ţuţora, the nephew of Queen Żółkiewskiego, who the last of the Sutkowskich: Barbara Sutkowską. From the end of the 18 the age of the devastation and destruction of the Castle underwent a gradual decline. At the present time still preserved are its ruins, located above the deep there Uszycy. The only preserved Castle you can see well from the Church, formed on the opposite launching Gulch.

It is at the very end add, that, in the 18 age over a period of time the owner of the Sutkowiec was Tadeusz Grabianka (1740 – 1807) -known Freemason, iluminat, Mystic, precursor of Polish messiahship, who was that in the Castle sutkowskim Alessandro Cagliostro.

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